Kinoabend: Les guardiennes de la planète

"Film off!" for francophone films: Every month, the Institut français shows a film en français in cooperation with the Student Council for Classical Philology and Romance Studies (KlaPhiRo) and the Schaubühne Lindenfels .

To mark Earth Day in April, we are showing two films this month: The animated film Pie dan lo is a short film about the oil spill caused by the capsizing of the Wakashio off Mauritius in July 2020 - the worst natural disaster ever to hit the region.

We will then show Les Gardiennes de la planète, a documentary inspired by Heathcote Williams' poem Whale Nation. Based on a humpback whale stranded on a remote coast and the fight for its life, the film tells the story of these extraordinary creatures that populate the world's oceans.

France/Mauritius, 2024
Director: Kim Yip Tong
13 min
OmeU

France, 2022
Director: Jean-Albert Lievre
82 min
OmeU

In cooperation with the Schaubühne Lindenfels and the student council KlaPhiRo of the University of Leipzig.